It's funny that people are saying that we shouldn't bomb Syria because it's not our problem, well by that logic taking their refugees is not our problem either.
Syria are outwith the EU, they're not a former colony of the British Empire, they're not an international ally (France are by the way) and they're not a particularly important trading partner. We owe next to no obligation to take their refugees, yet we still did.
As for why we're bombing them, firstly we're targeting known IS strongholds. Despite what Jeremy Corbyn and his army of bedroom politicians and social media warriors would have you believed we're not just throwing bombs around willy-nilly. We're targeting the bad guys.
I've not heard any greatly emotionally wounded liberal come up with a better solution. We're not dealing with rational, logical people here, they are a threat to the Western world, Syrian civilians and themselves. They need to be removed.
We're already bombing Iraq in a similar vein and nobody cares about that anymore.
As for ISIS in Europe, I heavily suspect they have a stronghold in Turkey, just leave that one to Russia, eh?
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